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Don't know what to look for? $ apropos %something%
Burn it to a DVD... i am guessing you are installing Debian, or something like that
Cooper Perry
>grow up What did he mean?
Oliver Ramirez
I switched to linux and want to do the following: >when bringing focus on a texbox, select all the text >when dragging over text, stop fucking starting from the second character. >GNU/linux distros' touchpad speed is fast by default and it is making hate windows for that And a question: does a DE make a font better/worse?
Joseph Brown
I have a process that takes over keyboard control from the shell and prints out a bunch of things. If that output contains a specific line, I want to match that against, say, a regex, and abort + restart the process if it fails the check.
How would I go about automating that? It's important that the process is send a ctrl+z after the significant line of output fails the check, it would just continue indefinitely otherwise.
Chase Sullivan
Fonts are a thing for themselves, just like icons, but differen't DE-s render them differently, and it mostly has to do with anti-aliasing and things like that. So yeah, different DE-s make fonts better/worse
Aaron Fisher
That is a vague question... do you want it in Python, Bash, Ruby...? Do you want it to be a simple "while" statement or a daemon...
Anthony Reyes
Make 2 lists, strings, whatever, and populate one with the output, and the other with what you want it to be compared to. If they don't match, do something, else, clear lists and start over
Parker Perez
You can also, if you want, write to a file and read from it, and use that as a kind of a middle thing, but i don't see why that would be necessary
Jonathan Phillips
xfce renders them like shit. I have to increase the value of the dpi and font size to make it look tolerable and it is making most programs' designs shit because text goes off bounds.
Mason Sanchez
>Python, Bash, Ruby...? Bash is what I'm most familiar with, and it seems like the right fit here.
>a simple "while" statement or a daemon... Just a simple statement or script is fine, this doesn't need to get fancy.
To specify my case in a more general-purpose way, I want to watch the output of a process and kill it if the output matches a regex.
Tyler Sanders
>xfce renders them like shit it looks fine to me
i had to create a fontconfig file to make chromium not do ugly full hinting though
Easton Evans
Beatutiful.. Do you install a graphics driver or something like that? Maybe it is just a laptop issue?
Daniel Harris
can you post a screenshot of that menu?
i have a graphics driver installed but that shouldn't affect it
Brayden Torres
Antergos or Manjaro, which one is better and why?
Justin Williams
if odds I install Fedora if evens I also install Fedora
Liam Cox
Antergos cnchi is slow as hell for me.
Samuel Howard
Debian.
Nathan Scott
1 sheckel disposed
Oliver Diaz
I'm asking about theese 2
Austin Ward
noob question, is it possible in bash to use the match of a wildcard as a variable? e.g. if I have folders with jpgs in them: folder_a/image.jpg folder_b/image.jpg for jpg in */image.jpg; do echo $something done
where $something would be "folder_a", "folder_b" etc..?
Matthew Edwards
In your example '$jpg' is the variable for each jpg.
Landon Hernandez
for pic in pictures/*; do echo "$pic"; done
Jonathan Wright
How much would portage benefit from faster storage? It takes so long with "checking dependencies" and I figure it's because it's installed on an old 2.5" 5400RPM HDD I salvaged from a laptop just to test Gentoo.
Anthony Phillips
Thanks, but I meant specifically only the part that was filled in at the wildcard. $jpg would give me folder_a/image.jpg and not just folder_a. I realize I can just split the string but I hoped there was a cleaner way.
Elijah Powell
for jpg in */image.jpg; do echo "$something" | sed 's!/image.jpg!!' done
remember to quote variables!!!
Hunter Wright
I copied your settings(xfce-dawn + your font) and it looks the same now! Is there any style/theme for xfce to remove the 'old and plain' feel while I get used to linux in general?
Thomas Young
My bad. It should be for something in ....
Kevin Phillips
I have a question:
Why doesn't everyone use Arch? It's so comfy and stable.
Brody Martin
+1 shekel
Jeremiah Smith
Because Debian exists.
Luke Cook
>implying Arch can afford whole shekel per post
Nathan Cox
i haven't really looked into it, i'm not a big fan of the default theme (mostly how the window buttons look) but it doesn't bother me enough to look for something better
Colton Davis
anyone know about alsa configuration? i can only get sound from one process at a time and i'm not really sure why
Eli Smith
>tfw fell for you don't need more than 10GB of space for root on home server/nas.
Christian Turner
10GB seems kinda low, but should still be enough. are you sure you're not hoarding old package versions that take up space or something?
Cooper Hernandez
Dolphin is scary.
Benjamin Butler
Kek
Jack Bailey
>tfw dolphin is still the only file manager with folder previews and drag selection in detailed view >it looks like shit on gtk desktops Life is suffering. I hope it looks good on lxqt.
Zachary Rivera
Apparently it was gitlab-ce. How the fuck it managed to be 2GB when i only had 1 repository with maybe 10 commits in it before i switched to gogs?
Adrian Barnes
>How much would portage benefit from faster storage? It does, because it is made of literally six gorillion small files.
However you can always create a tmpfs "ramdisk", download portage as a squashfs image from any gentoo mirror to the ramdisk and mount it to /usr/portage for much better speeds. Note: on your normal filesystem create a folder for distfiles, chown it to portage:portage then in your make.conf set a DISTDIR variable to that directory (full path ofc).
James Richardson
>differen't DE-s render them differently [citation needed] They all use the same libraries, fontconfig, freetype2, pango, cairo or whatever else is there. Why bother posting such ridiculous claims if you lack the knowledge to present definitive proof?
Parker Diaz
It looks the same on "GTK desktops", idiot. It can and does use the same Qt5 theme, regardless of your "desktop". There is no such thing as a "GTK or Qt desktop". There are GTK and Qt programs.
Blake Stewart
My problem is a bit longer and complicated but I wanna run it past you guys in case it's something obvious before I go to the official forums:
DaVinciResolve is a professional video editing programm. I installed it on kubuntu 16.04 despite the Linux version being RHEL based. I used this guide: youtube.com/watch?v=7bEyGhm9Gj8& I can run it and import files, but video files aren't being replayed. they show a timecode counting up, but nothing nothign else. Images work, Audiophiles show the waveform but dont play any sound.
I tried looking in the preferences for stuff relating to it but couldn't find any.
Brody Moore
Antergos is just an installer for Arch so it's pointless, you can use Anarchy instead or just manually install and set up Arch Manjaro seems decent and it's comfy out of the box, they delay packages to make sure nothing is broken before releasing them which is nice
Alexander Edwards
You are most likely missing a media library.
Instead of following some shitty guides, look at the documentation that comes with the program. Look which dependencies is has. Install those, compile it and install. To avoid being an idiot, also package it yourself, so you can install it nicely with your package manager.
stable unless you have too much free time and are okay with things being broken
Connor Bailey
>unless you have too much free time and are okay with things being broken so are full of shit lad. t. sid user
Gavin Nguyen
IMO stable+apt-pinning is optimal.
David Rivera
maybe i just want my system to work
Angel Miller
And recive security updates :v
Jacob Morris
I've been having a bit of an issue with Xfce4 on Debian Testing. Unlocking my session with LightDM gives me a black screen if I use version 4.14.0-2 or higher of the Linux Kernel. It works properly in 4.14.0-1, but I'd really like to have a way to update my kernel without giving up the ability to lock my session. I've tried using sddm, but my cursor became invisible whenever I logged in or unlocked my session with it. I also tried out lxdm, but the command to lock it is only available if you're executing it as root (otherwise, bash says that the command doesn't even exist), so the only way to make it work with xflock4 would be updating my sudoers file to not prompt for a password when running that command, and I don't know if that's secure or not. Does anyone know how to make lightdm work in newer versions of the Linux Kernel?
Xavier Murphy
Even if it looks like lightdm, it's not lightdm but a semi-separate program called "light-locker".
If you only want to lock your screen, then consider disabling light-locker then install xscreensaver and set it to lock your computer.
Michael Powell
Unstable.
I used to use testing but switched to sid because of the 2-day delay on security fixes for testing. Never seen anything break that I recall. You do have to read the changelogs that apt-get shows you, though, since occasionally there is something you're supposed to adjust manually after an upgrade.
Isaac Bennett
>stable old as shit >stable + backports still old as shit, backports don't do anything >testing the worst compromise, arbitrary release of packages and no security updates >unstable just use arch instead
Dylan Richardson
>backports don't do anything Except providing current version.
Luis Torres
I tested it about 5 days ago and the only newer version is LibreOffice 6 instead of 5.2, every other package is the same as in stable
Nathan Peterson
Is it possible to let users who only have access to sftp to change their password somehow? They dont have any access to a terminal, they can only upload/download files.
Ubuntu btw
Austin King
Use ssh keys, allow user to overwrite his key (just providing idea i had never tried it) Also remeber to disable passwords!
Robert Torres
Guys, I'm installing Gentoo (at least trying), I picked a "profile" and the system asked me if I wanted to "emerge all those package (y/n)" I said yes.
Did I fucked up? The handbook told me to run: root #emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse @world Which I did but it doesn't say if you should pick "yes" or "no" to the question "emerge all those package (y/n)". Now it's compiling the universe on my Intel Atom slow ass 10 years old processor (my main machine btw, posting from a IBM T40 I found in the trash 7years ago right now)... I wonder if I fucked up... I don't understand half of what am I doing... I just follow the handbook. Plus I forgot to tell gcc to compile quietly and now bazillion of messages are being displaying eating a shitload of precious processor cycle in the process... Holy shit, it will take days... DAYS. Hopefully, that processor doesn't produce too much heat... Last time I compiled something that took days the BIOS shut the machine because no vent' and heat reaching 120°C.
Also how the fuck do I even install lsusb, is there and equivalent to $apt-get cache search . I wasn't ready for this. And then I need to do the kernel config... after that... Geez, I hope the compilation end up before they kick me out of the hobbo center, thanks dog they can't kick me out because it's really cold in Europe right now, but other hobboes want to still my machine, I can see it in their eyes, they cant my machines, I wont let them user', I wont.
Sebastian Young
Delet dis ftp != sftp
Asher Rogers
>turns out sftp =/= FTP with security pic related, me fml
Josiah Cook
Gentoo. On atom. Dude...
If you have stronger PC just use distcc (tunneled over ssh)
Mason Miller
What's a good OS to install in a old laptop? (ssd 500gb, intel core i3), thinking about gentoo, shill me hard boys did you try stopping with ctrl+C and adding --quiet to the line?
Jack Myers
>Did I fucked up? No. stage3 is built using a basic profile. If you set a desktop profile if will set up your USE flags in a way that it pulls in samba, cups, qt, gtk and god knows what kind of cursed knowledge from the far edges of hell. Yes, it takes LITERAL ages on a shitbox.
>Also how the fuck do I even install lsusb, is there and equivalent to apt-cache Yes, look into emerge -s and gentoolkit
Elijah Roberts
Explain what does distcc do? It's some kind of cross-compilation over network or what?
I haven't finished installing Gentoo yet, but a i3 is much better than an Atom processor (except it's botnet unsafe technology unlike Atom)... So Gentoo might be OK on your machine. Anyway, I'm just testing the distro'... It doesn't seems very convenient so far.
Liam Edwards
Thanks for the answer, user'. >Yes, it takes LITERAL ages on a shitbox. See you in a few aeons then, *tips hobbohat*
Oliver Wood
distcc is a "distributed compiler". Basically you run gcc on another computer. You computer sends source files ans gets back compiled files.
You can speed up compiling on a computer by distributing compiler work to other computers via distcc. Other computers need to run the same version of gcc thou.
Jackson Roberts
>cross-compilation over network This. Check gentoo wiki. Also you probably need crossdev to build cross toolchain on distcc host (what architecture do you have on stronger PC?)
Colton Foster
We have far more new user in this threads now. Will be 2019 year of GNU+Linux on desktops?
Jordan Long
Sounds like I need to find some private network, now Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30GHz
Juan Lee
s/user/users
Cameron Baker
>private network Use SSH tunnel. Never trust any network
Asher Clark
why is my terminal font so shitty in arch when it looks good in other distros? Even the theme is different, even though all GNOME settings are identical
Oliver Hall
does anyone has a wi-fi that keeps disconnecting?, fucker doesn't let me download stage 3 in gentoo
Charles Thomas
and yes it's virtualbox, and yes, i have guest additions installed
Tyler Long
the arch font looks better to me. the other looks very blurry.
Cooper Gonzalez
that's not how it's supposed to look like though. all normal GNOME setups look like the bottom one
Liam Moore
are you sure it's the same font?
Jason Cruz
yes monospace regular 11
Parker Gray
Rate my BASH script. Also please feel free to add suggestions.
let subcount=$subcount+1 let allipcount=$allipcount+1 done
done < /tmp/upips
echo "Portscan results." cat /tmp/portscan
Adam Young
Opinions on Tumbleweed? Doesn't seem to be very popular
Wyatt James
I've never used Linux before but want to try mint, booting from a usb. I'm pretty retarded but I wrote the files to my usb, the contents of which are efi > boot > bootx64.efi and grubx64.efi
What do I have to do after I reboot? I just want to fuck around for a bit and get a feel of it
Jordan Clark
How do I install drivers if I am not on debian? The iwlwifi firmware I downloaded wont appear on modprobe
Wyatt Stewart
go to your bios and set boot option to your usb as first option
Jack White
Got a dualshock 4 here
How does one get to bind the touchpad buttons to keyboard keys on loonix
Carson Nelson
ok thanks.do i need to make any changes to the biod to do that? i'm on a thinkpad. and will anything i do while running linux be saved if i reboot from usb again later?
